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Logistics
Studio Staging
Expenses
Phase 1 of the project
Phase 2 of the project
Long range plans
staging
Studio Staging
The television staging will
consist of a seven-foot high, portable,
black-backdrop (curtain) that will surround a circle
of eleven chairs with a three-foot walkway behind the
chairs. Three black-clothed camera operators
(assistants/co-facilitators) will move around in
this 3' walkway. One camera operator will focus on
the person speaking while another will focus on the
person being spoken to. A third camera will be
looking for expressions of participants that are
conducive to conveying the group dynamic. A fourth
camera is kept ready as a “backup.”
The cameras will be mounted
on light-weight tripods. The camera operators will
sit on stools with castors.
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expenses
Expenses
Staging
Estimated cost of backdrop to include:
(8) 2" x 2" x 7' high wooden curtain stands with weighted base tripods.
(10) 7' high X 10' wide backdrop curtain sections, each section overlapping
the other to form an octagon surrounding the chairs when attached to the 7' high curtain stands.
Total cost approximately $1000
Audio/Video Equipment
(4) Sony digital cameras $1700 ea.
(3) Light-weight camera tripods
$20 ea.
(3) (IEEE-1394 (FireWire) cables
$37 ea.
(6) 90-minute recording cassettes $200
(1) Personal Computer
$2994 (with (2)
500 GB hard
drives, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, high performance graphics card.
(1) Licensed copy of “Final Cut Pro 3” video-editing software $995
(1) 24" digital monitor approx $800
(12) Lapel microphones
$300
Operating expenses
Estimated miscellaneous expenses, $4000 (Includes: $5.00/week gasoline
reimbursement for volunteers, name tags, pens, paper, bottled water, 15 minute
break-time juice for participants and assistants, cups, etc.)
Unplanned/unknown operating expenses $2000 (Approximate)
Includes:
repair, maintenance, cell phone
subscription (Hawaiian Telcom), extended warranties for cameras, etc.
Total estimated budget for the 6 month program
$20,000 (to be solicited for and
by Community Communications, the program sponsor)
It's possible that the free public service TV station will have:
- video/audio mixer
- lapel microphones
- 3 microphones w/stands for the assistant co-facilitators
- stools with castors
- Computer and editing software
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phase1
Phase 1 of the project
Conduct a survey to determine community support and project feasibility.
Newspapers: Write announcements for the local newspapers.
Community flyers:
Write flyers to be posted throughout the community.
Letters: Write letter to the
Governor, Mayor, Superintendent of Prisons, and the Warden requesting permission
and support.
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phase2
Phase 2 of the project
Enrolling the following—
- the 10 volunteer inmates
- the support of the Hawaii County Mayor, (letter to be composed)
- the support of the Hawaii County Council Members (letter to be composed)
- the Superintendent of Prisons,
(letter to be composed)
- the Correctional Facility Warden
- the 10 volunteer assistant co-facilitators. ( see
prerequisites )
- Hilo 5 TV or Na Leo 'O Hawai'i public TV access station (letter to be composed)
The facilitator will personally invite the inmates at
the Correctional Facility to
participate in the 24 session (approximately six month) televised support group.
This invitation will be preceded with a flyer to be posted in the
Correctional Facility bulletin board (see example)
CSG will also contact the TV stations.
Making arrangements:
The ideal would be to have the inmates
transported to the TV station for each weekly session in much the same manner as
trustees are transported to various community service projects. It's possible
however that sessions may have to be taped at the correctional facility
and then broadcasted on another night.
Enrolling and training volunteers
( volunteers
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Assistant co-facilitators will be trained in the use of a video camera, a
computer video software mixer. There will be three video cameras
and a mixer. The assistant co-facilitator in charge of mixing will also be
selecting which of the three camera shots is best suited for immediate, live
transmission.
Assistant co-facilitators will also be trained in making arrangements to
receive live telephone calls from viewers via cell phones.
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long
Long range plans
CSG participants, once paroled, will be encouraged to continue participating
in the program as volunteer assistant co-facilitators. In this way they will
keep the community informed about what's happening with them, and, in serving
others, be served.
It is envisioned that paroled participants will continue their communication
studies with the option of becoming CSG facilitators. This means that eventually
each would be qualified, by community agreement, to facilitate their own CSGs
throughout the state and elsewhere nationwide.
The success of the program
could become a nationwide model.
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